[Simh] going back to the VAX console with CTRL P

[Ray Jewhurst]

The biggest problem that I find is that unless you do a console, you lose
your prompt and that is kind of annoying. It would be nice if you could
re-echo if you will in order to keep continuity.

Ray

On Tue, Aug 6, 2019, 3:46 PM Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> I think the key concept was "the simulator does not stop". Essentially,
> be able to give commands to simh while the simulated system continues
> running. Which would be a nice thing to be able to do when you just want
> to change which tape or disk is attached, for example.
>
>    Johnny
>
> On 2019-08-06 21:25, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
> > On Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 12:20 PM, Richard Cornwell wrote:
> >>     What I would rather see then an automatic connection of the console
> >>     to a telnet port, is the command processor running in a thread so
> >>     that when you ^E your simulator does not stop. Perhaps this could be
> >>     toggle able for testing purposes. SIMH already support redirecting
> >>     the console to a telnet port so there is nothing really to add here.
> >
> > You should try using the remote console:
> >
> >       sim> SET REMOTE TELNET=port
> >
> > Boot you simulator.
> >
> > And from another window, telnet to the remote console port.
> > You can directly enter many commands and get their response with the
> simulator still running OR if you want to stop instruction execution you
> can type the WRU character (CTRL E) and enter a series of commands with
> instruction execution suspended which will you can CONTINUE or if you wait
> a while it will CONTINUE automatically...
> >
> > Does this solve the problem you were thinking of?
> >
> > - Mark
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